What is "world's end"

World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver["o]ld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]

1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

   The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.
   --Rom. 1. 20.

   With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.
   --Milton.

2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. ``Lord of the worlds above.''
   --I. Watts.

   Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.
   --Milton.

   There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign.
   --W. B. Sprague.

3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.

   That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
   --Milton.

4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.

   One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety.
   --Shak.

   Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain.
   --Milton.

5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.

   Happy is she that from the world retires.
   --Waller.

   If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in ignorance.
   --Addison.

6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.

7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.

   Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it.
   --Shak.

   Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
   --Shak.

8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.

   I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
   --John xvii.

9. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. --1 John ii. 15, 16. 9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. ``A world of men.'' --Chapman. ``A world of blossoms for the bee.'' --Bryant. Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak. A world of woes dispatched in little space. --Dryden. All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not save him. A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. [Obs.] O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. --Shak. For all the world.

   1. Precisely; exactly.

   2. For any consideration.

      Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

      To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] ``Thus goes every one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!''
      --Shak.

      World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions.

      World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end.

      Throughout all ages, world without end.
      --Eph. iii. 21.

World's End, or Worlds End, may refer to:

World's End is the first novel of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1940, after World War II had begun in Europe the previous year, the story covers the period from 1913 to 1919, before and after World War I.

World's End is a 1987 historical fiction novel by T. C. Boyle. The novel, characterized by dark satire, tells the story of several generations of families in the Hudson River Valley. It was the winner of the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction.

World's End is a novel written by British author Mark Chadbourn and is the first in the Age of Misrule trilogy. It was first published in Great Britain by Millennium on 14 September 2000. An edition collecting all three books in The Age of Misrule series (World's End, Darkest Hour and Always Forever) was published in Great Britain on 14 September 2006.

World's End is a 251-acre (1 km²) park and conservation area located on a peninsula in Hingham, Massachusetts. The peninsula is bordered by the Weir River to the North and East and Hingham Harbor (part of Hingham Bay, and Boston Harbor) to the West. The land is composed of four drumlins (Pine Hill, Planter's Hill, and the double drumlins of World's End proper) harboring tree groves interspersed with fields attractive to butterflies and grassland-nesting birds, and offers 4.5 miles of walking paths with views of the Boston skyline.

The adjacent neighborhood, an upper-middle class residential subdivision with several waterfront homes, is also colloquially called World's End.

"World's End" is a 2008-2009 comic book crossover storyline published by Wildstorm and taking place in the Wildstorm Universe. The event takes place in the issues of all of Wildstorm's Wildstorm Universe ongoing series.

"World's End" is the 100th episode and the 7th episode from Season 5 of Cold Case, it originally aired on November 4, 2007 on CBS in United States.

World's End is a CBBC 2015 drama mystery created by Danny Spring and Diane Whitley and premiered on 28 March 2015. It stars Amy Robbins as Stephanie Morelle and twins Carlos and Marco Esparza as her two sons, Noah and Luke.